Scrubbing mitt



Feb, 193% SCRUBBING MITT Filed Oct '7, 1935 /6 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

c. E. LEERLEY ,7 222 Patented Feb. 4, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3Claims.

This invention relates to a scrubbing finger mitten which is constructedin such a manner as to enable the wearer more effectively to performvarious scrubbing operations.

One object of the invention is to provide a scrubbing article or deviceof the kind stated which has an applicator surface furnished with animproved arrangement of scrubbing ribs and intervening grooves.

Another object of the invention is to furnish the article with animproved finger-gripping surface thus enabling the wearer moreeffectively to move it forcibly over the surface being scrubbed, andalso safeguarding more effectively against the article slipping off fromthe fingers during use.

Other objects, advantages and features of the invention may hereinafterappear.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, which illustrates what is atpresent deemed to be a preferred embodiment of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the article showing it applied to the handof the user.

Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof looking at the applicator surface part ofwhich is broken away in order to disclose the interior construction.

Fig. 3 is a cross section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a fragmental rear View of the article.

Referring in detail. to the drawing, the finger mitten illustratedcomprises a body portion 5 and a front piece or keeper 6 thus affordinga finger pocket I to receive the fingers of the human hand, asillustrated in Fig. 1.

Said body portion 5 is positioned to overlie the back surface of thefingers of the flexed hand when the article is in use, and is provided.with a plurality of quadrangularly arranged scrubbingribs 8 which areseparated from each other by grooves 9. In a central location withrelation to these ribs and grooves is located a continuous substantiallyrectangular rib l0 which incloses a more shallow depressed space I I inthe center of which is a rise l2 which may be made about the same heightas the ribs 8 and I0, said ribs all desirably being of about the sameheight in order to present a uniform scrubbing or applicator surface.The part II thickens and thus reinforces the central portion of thearticle.

The various ribs which have been mentioned all run diagonally withrelation to the direction in which extend the fingers of the hand uponwhich the article is placed, thus scrubbing with an effective diagonalshearing contact as the operator moves the mit. The ribs 8 intersecteach other at substantially a right angle, and the same is true of thegrooves 9. Therefore there is a balanced scrubbing action when the handof the operator is alternately moved back and forth as has been stated.

The front forms the inner flap of the finger pocket 'I and isconstructed and arranged to fit over the palmar surface of the fingerswhen the article is in use, and is furnished along its margin with aninwardly directed bead or selvage rib I5 which performs the combinedfunctions of reinforcing the front piece 6 and'of forming a finger holdwhich fits into the sulcus between the two outer joints of the flexedfingers when the fingers are inserted into the pocket I as shown inFig. 1. This transverse selvage rib I5 is therefore peculiarly welladapted to perform the intended retaining function for the article whilein use and to give the operator a better grip upon the mitten so as touse it more effectively. Said rib has a rounded face as viewed in crosssection thus making it comfortable to the hand.

The applicator or scrubbing surface is rounded or oonvexly beveled at I6and the palmar surface is slightly beveled at ll, said surfaces 16 andI1 meeting each other along a blunt ridge or peak line l8. Between thepoint l8 and the 25 pocket 1 a reinforcing mass or body 19 is provided,and the article is furnished with a substantial heavy side or edge wall20 at each side of the pocket I. The rib l5 and pocket edge along whichit extends are both concaved as best 3 shown in Fig. 2, and the oppositepocket edge is somewhat convex, these curved lines substantially meetingat the corners of the open edge of the pocket 1.

I claim:

1. A mitten of the kind described having a finger pocket located betweenan applicator portion and a finger-grippable portion, the latter portionconsisting of a pocket flap having along the inner side of its margin arib positioned to 40 fit within the groove or sulcus at the base of theouter joints of the fingers of the operator.

2. A mitten of the kind described having a pocket formed by anapplicator portion on one side thereof and a finger-grippable flap onthe 45 opposite side thereof, said mitten having a thickened bodyportion at the base of said pocket which has a pointed outer extremityand an inner part positioned to be engaged by the tips of the fingers ofthe operator.

3. A mitten of the kind described having an applicator surface furnishedwith ribs and intervening grooves, the depth of the said grooves beingless in the central portion of said applicator surface therebythickening and reinforcing the part of the article underlying saidsurface.

CLARENCE E. LIERLEY.

